Fr. David Anderson: The Sunday Experience of the Resurrection

One of Fr. David's wishes is to write a book on write book on Paschaltime. May God bring it to fruition!

How is our Lord breathing upon the apostles (John 20:22-24) different from what happened at Pentecost? Was this gift of the Holy Spirit a kind of ordination, to give them the power to do the acts necessary to minister to Christians before Pentecost, a prefiguration of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church Universal?

As for Fr. David's memories of Sunday Mass: in the Latin ecclesial tradition (justified by texts in the Roman rite?) is the exclusive or almost-exclusive identification of the Eucharist with the "sacrifice of our Lord on the Cross a possible reason why Sunday doesn't feel like a ceelbration of the Resurrection? Maybe Mass wouldfeel more like a mini-Good Friday if anything. In contrast, the Byzantine rite is more holistic in how it understands the sarifice of our Lord, looking at the entirety of His life, both here on earth and after His ascension.